The Lightness Of Being

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"I had been very concerned about the technical details of assuring that the ascent engine could be started and would do the job of getting us back into lunar orbit. But that was in the two years prior to the flight. On the lunar surface, it did not weigh on my mind at all. This was the time to think positively."-Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon